Is it possible to show the count of number emails selected on a folder like
the feature available in Excel.

Paddy, Chennai, India

Outlook has no way of telling you that but indeed just continues to display
the total amount of items in the folder. While whipping up some code to
display the amount of selected items in a message box is not that hard to
do, there is actually a native alert feature we can abuse here which will
give the same results. When you select more than 4 items and press ENTER
Outlook will display an alert telling you the following;
“Opening a lot of items could take some time. Are you sure you want to open
these 11 items?”
Of course we will click “No” but at least we now know how many items we had
selected.

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003
http://www.howto-outlook.com/
Outlook FAQ, HowTo, Downloads, Add-Ins and more

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"Padmanabhan K" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:E92EBF84-CCC2-4688-BA49-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Is it possible to show the count of number emails selected on a folder
> like
> the feature available in Excel.
>
> Paddy, Chennai, India

Thanks Roady. I tried out your suggestion. When we try to open more than 4
items, it is displaying a message as you said. It may not be the right
solution that I was looking for. Yet this is also a good idea. Thanks for
your help.

"Roady [MVP]" wrote:

> Outlook has no way of telling you that but indeed just continues to display
> the total amount of items in the folder. While whipping up some code to
> display the amount of selected items in a message box is not that hard to
> do, there is actually a native alert feature we can abuse here which will
> give the same results. When you select more than 4 items and press ENTER
> Outlook will display an alert telling you the following;
> “Opening a lot of items could take some time. Are you sure you want to open
> these 11 items?”
> Of course we will click “No” but at least we now know how many items we had
> selected.
>
> --
> Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
> Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003
> http://www.howto-outlook.com/
> Outlook FAQ, HowTo, Downloads, Add-Ins and more
>
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>
> "Padmanabhan K" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:E92EBF84-CCC2-4688-BA49-(E-Mail Removed)...
> > Is it possible to show the count of number emails selected on a folder
> > like
> > the feature available in Excel.
> >
> > Paddy, Chennai, India
>

You're welcome! :-)

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003
http://www.howto-outlook.com/
Outlook FAQ, HowTo, Downloads, Add-Ins and more

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"Padmanabhan K" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news998B1F3-2F4B-4DBD-93E6-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Thanks Roady. I tried out your suggestion. When we try to open more than 4
> items, it is displaying a message as you said. It may not be the right
> solution that I was looking for. Yet this is also a good idea. Thanks for
> your help.
>
> "Roady [MVP]" wrote:
>
>> Outlook has no way of telling you that but indeed just continues to
>> display
>> the total amount of items in the folder. While whipping up some code to
>> display the amount of selected items in a message box is not that hard to
>> do, there is actually a native alert feature we can abuse here which will
>> give the same results. When you select more than 4 items and press ENTER
>> Outlook will display an alert telling you the following;
>> “Opening a lot of items could take some time. Are you sure you want to
>> open
>> these 11 items?”
>> Of course we will click “No” but at least we now know how many items we
>> had
>> selected.
>>
>> --
>> Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
>> Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003
>> http://www.howto-outlook.com/
>> Outlook FAQ, HowTo, Downloads, Add-Ins and more
>>
>> -----
>>
>> "Padmanabhan K" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> news:E92EBF84-CCC2-4688-BA49-(E-Mail Removed)...
>> > Is it possible to show the count of number emails selected on a folder
>> > like
>> > the feature available in Excel.
>> >
>> > Paddy, Chennai, India
>>